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Tech giants Microsoft, Amazon and Google are the subjects of the latest high-profile lawsuits for privacy violations under the Illinois Biometric Information Privacy Act (BIPA), which prohibits the capture or storage of an individual’s biometric data without their express consent to do so. The biometric data in question in these instances is faceprints obtained by […]
Amazon is following IBM’s lead and is no longer allowing law enforcement agencies to use its facial recognition technology. However, Amazon’s decision comes with a few more caveats. While IBM completely ended its facial recognition program, Amazon only committed to a one-year moratorium, and indicated that it will still provide facial recognition services for organizations […]
Synaptics has become the latest member of Amazon’s Voice Interoperability Initiative, and will now be working with the tech giant to improve the utility of IoT products with more than one voice-based service. To that end, Synaptics will offer particular expertise on the subject of multiple wake words, which allow users to activate and navigate […]
San Francisco-based Inference Solutions, maker of Intelligent Virtual Agents (IVA), has announced the newest version of its Inference Studio platform including the new Verbatim Audio feature for tuning speech recognition and task automation. With Inference Studio 6.5, users can build and manage IVA applications to help them with customer engagement as well as tasks like […]
The same kind of machine learning-produced racial biases found in some facial recognition technologies are also in play in speech recognition, according to new research from Stanford Engineering. In a paper published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, the researchers detail findings showing that speech recognition systems are significantly more likely to […]
The Washington State House of Representatives and the Senate have reached an agreement on new legislation regulating the use of facial recognition technology. Under the newly-passed Senate Bill 6280 — which the lawmakers are calling “one of the first and most comprehensive laws to regulate facial recognition technology in the nation” — facial recognition technologies […]
“We are beyond excited to be introducing this line of devices that will extend Amazon’s innovative work, from not only replacing your credit card, to replacing your keys, work badge, flight tickets, hotel reservations, drivers license and more – all with the wave of a hand.” – Jaxon Klein, Co-founder & CEO, Keyo Keyo Inc. […]
Amazon is reportedly trying to develop checkout terminals that would allow customers to use a palm scan to pay for goods and services at physical establishments. The tech giant has been collaborating with Mastercard and Visa – in addition to card issuers like JP Morgan Chase, Wells Fargo, and Synchrony – to ensure the security […]
A study by the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) released last Thursday shows that many of the facial recognition algorithms used today misidentify people of color far more often than middle-aged white men. The study tested roughly 18 million photos of more than 8 million people taken from databases run by the State […]
Sensory Inc., a pioneer in embedded voice and biometric AI technologies, announced an update to its TrulyHandsFree wake word engine giving it support for multiple wake words from a number of leading brands. The new capabilities for TrulyHandsFree also allow for custom-branded wake words, where the user can create their own word or phrase to […]
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